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Definition of the day : « abortive »
- adj failing to achieve a goal
- And yet it was ministered to, in a dull and abortive manner, by all who made this feint.
- Extract from : « The Uncommercial Traveller » by Charles Dickens
- Thus the efforts of Malique proved as abortive as the ravings of his master.
- Extract from : « Gomez Arias » by Joaqun Telesforo de Trueba y Coso
- They are abortive births of an imperfect or vitiated instinct.
- Extract from : « Essays, First Series » by Ralph Waldo Emerson
- And as passive resistance was their attitude, his purging scheme was abortive.
- Extract from : « England and Germany » by Emile Joseph Dillon
- There had been in the early part of the day an abortive effort at a procession.
- Extract from : « Jack Hinton » by Charles James Lever
- In spite of his efforts it was abortive, and he was compelled to use another.
- Extract from : « The Trail of '98 » by Robert W. Service
- In Brazil, a Nazi-directed abortive Putsch took place in 1938.
- Extract from : « Secret Armies » by John L. Spivak
- That is abortive that is untimely, that has not been borne its full time, that is immature.
- Extract from : « The Verbalist » by Thomas Embly Osmun, (AKA Alfred Ayres)
- It had been three years since she had tried her abortive love-affair with him.
- Extract from : « The Good Soldier » by Ford Madox Ford
- Besides, in addition to abortive hypotheses, there are dethroned ones.
- Extract from : « Essay on the Creative Imagination » by Th. Ribot